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Salon.com June 13, 2000 Flore de Preneuf |
Is Syria's next president a geek? He loves technology. He wants to bring the Internet to Damascus. But can the Israelis learn to love him? |
Reason June 2006 |
Three Views on Iraq, Three Years Later In May 2003 George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished" in Iraq. A trio of analysts debates the current state of the region: Why I Supported the Iraq War... You Can't Bring Order to the Middle East... Six Facts About Iraq... |
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Reed & Sandler |
Syria's Assad: Man On A Tightrope No matter what the small pro-regime crowds in the Syrian capital say, being forced to pull Syrian troops out of Lebanon comes as a humiliation for Bashar al-Assad. |
Reason February 2007 Guy Taylor |
After the Damascus Spring Syria, an authoritarian state whose government, which has long maintained ownership and control over the media, claims now to be intent on spreading information technology to the masses. |
Salon.com June 6, 2000 Rolf Potts |
My Beirut hostage crisis Taken under the wing of a Lebanese detergent tycoon, our correspondent learns that there's a fine line between hospitality and kidnapping. |
BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 Stanley Reed |
Can Assad Halt Syria's Diplomatic Slide? Syria's young president, Bashar Al-Assad, has been sailing along oblivious to the dangers his government has been courting. Now he's waking up fast. |
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 Stanley Reed |
Syria's Regime Feels More And More Heat The chain reaction set off by the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on Feb. 14 is gaining force. |
Salon.com September 21, 2001 Paul Wachter |
The view from Beirut An American in Lebanon warns that despite Bush's efforts, Arabs will likely view an attack on terrorism as a war on Islam... |
Parameters Autumn 2007 William K. Mooney, Jr. |
Stabilizing Lebanon: Peacekeeping or Nation-Building While outside actors have played a major role, the weakness of the Lebanese government lies at the foundation of conflicts within the region. |
Geotimes December 2004 Kimberly Krieger |
Lebanon's Limestone: Where the Mountains Meet the Sea Sandwiched between Israel and Syria, Lebanon is a green and white jewel on the Mediterranean Sea. The green comes from Lebanon's humid and semi-tropical climate and the white is from the limestone covering most of the country. |
Smithsonian July 2005 Stephen Glain |
Syria at a Crossroads Following a humbling retreat from Lebanon and increasingly at odds with the U.S., the proud Arab nation finds itself at a critical juncture. |
Military History March 2007 Randy Gaddo |
Blowup in Beirut: U.S. Marines Peacekeeping Mission Turns Deadly In 1983, the deadly truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon shocked the nation. Today it looks like a harbinger of global terrorism. |
Military History O'Brien Browne |
The Enigmatic Lawrence of Arabia T.E. Lawrence turned Arab Bedouin tribes into a powerful guerrilla army against the Turks, then fought to get them justice from Britain. |
Salon.com February 16, 2001 Ben Barber |
Colin Powell rolls up his sleeves On his trip to the Middle East next week, Bush's secretary of state will face an escalating conflict that he never intended to mediate. |
Reason June 2005 Charles Paul Freund |
Beyond Arabism Music videos and Lebanese revolution: While not necessarily opposed to an Arabist identity, Lebanonism has long been an irritant to those Arab nationalists who seek to subsume the Mideast's different cultures into a single political/historical narrative. |
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Stanley Reed |
The Sands Are Shifting Under Egypt's Mubarak Rising tensions in Egypt arrive at a time when the Bush Administration's Middle East activism is moving into a tricky phase. |
Salon.com April 19, 2001 Ben Barber |
Dragged back into the fight As the confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians threatens to engulf the region, how long can the Bush administration stay out of the fray? |
Smithsonian May 2007 Stephen J. Glain |
Welcome to Rawda Iraqi artists find freedom of expression at Rawda, a coffee house in the Al Sahin district of Damascus, Syria. |
National Defense July 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Best of Times, Worst of Times for Air Power Gen. Herbert J. "Hawk" Carlisle, acknowledged that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria will never be defeated from the air. |
BusinessWeek May 12, 2011 Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey's Prime Minister on the violent stalemates in Syria and Libya, the Israel-Palestine peace process, and the roadblocks to EU membership for his nation |